Say you’re due at work at the top of the hour, and the train hasn’t arrived yet.

You and fellow riders pace along the platform, occasionally looking down the tunnel for lights, then back at your phone to check the time. Only now — when that must-attend morning meeting starts in five minutes — does the train slowly pull up and open its doors. And then, it just stays there.

Cue the anxious internal monologue: If I stay on this train, when will I get to work? Will I need to transfer? Is this the fastest route?

To help answer those questions, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority launched the MYmta app last week for Android and Apple users, offering bus, subway, Long Island Rail Road and Metro-North schedules all in one place. It also gives alternate routes with the least number of transfers or the shortest walking distances. Stations with elevators are also noted, and riders can purchase Metro-North and Long Island Rail Road tickets on the app.

Making the app was no easy lift. During the process of building it, the M.T.A. conducted 180 hours of interviews with riders since last December, asking them what they’d find most useful.

Riders were “asking for a consolidated app” across the M.T.A. system, said the authority’s managing director, Veronique Hakim, so they wouldn’t have to use multiple apps to access train and bus times, maps, tickets and other information.

But — like any new product — the app isn’t perfect. When we gave it a try, for example, it was difficult to track delays because the app would not refresh underground. (Though that could be the fault of spotty Wi-Fi at some subway stations, not the app.)

But hey, this is the kind of constructive feedback that the M.T.A. would like to hear.

“This app is about building for New Yorkers, by New Yorkers, and giving New Yorkers what they want,” Ms. Hakim said.

So if you have thoughts or complaints — and we know you do — go ahead and tell the M.T.A. what you think, and why, inside the app.

Here’s what else is happening:

Weather

The kind of Monday that’ll make you wish you were still at the beach.

(If you are: Don’t rub it in.)

Blue skies as far as the eye can see, with a high ofr 87, followed by a clear and comfy evening in the low 70s.

In the News

• Two ongoing federal corruption trials involving former Albany bigwigs have created a blight on the capital’s image. [New York Times]

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Dean G. Skelos, right, the former Republican leader of the State Senate, leaving federal court on Friday. Mr. Skelos will return to the stand on Monday in his trial on corruption charges.CreditMary Altaffer/Associated Press

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The ePrix resembles a Formula One race, except the cars run on electricity.CreditHarrison Hill/The New York Times

If the train or bus is not fast enough for you, perhaps a racecar will do.

The city’s Economic Development Corporation is doling out 1,000 free passes to the New York City ePrix, an electric auto-racing event taking place on Saturday and Sunday at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook.

The complimentary tickets up for grabs will give motor sport enthusiasts the opportunity to watch the races, meet the drivers and enjoy other entertainment.

While supplies last, community members can pick up passes at several locations in Brooklyn — Brooklyn Borough Hall; Port Side New York, aboard the Mary A. Whalen; Joseph Miccio Cornerstone Community Center; Red Hook Community Justice Center; and the Red Hook Library. (You can find more information here.)

Ready, set, go!

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